Bathurst Drivers: Jim Richards

Jim
Richards

Jim Richards

Born in Otahuhu, New Zealand, on the
2nd of September, 1947. Richards first came to notice
as Peter Brock's Bathurst co-driver sharing in a hat
trick of victories from 1978-80. He left in 1982 to drive
for the JPS BMW team and won the Australian Touring Car
Championship with BMW.

With the disabandment of the JPS
team in 1987 he joined Peter Brock's BMW outfit for one
year before leaving for Fred Gibson's Nissan team in
1989 and developing the awesome Group A Nissan GT-R.

After controversially crashing the Nissan in 1992 and
still winning because the red flag was shown, the normally
'Gentleman Jim' greeted the jeering crowd with this speech
- "I
thought Australian race fans had a lot more going for
them than this, this is going to remain with me for a
long time. You're a pack of arseholes!"